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Neuronal Cells We have developed two cell cultures from a pre-term aborted fetus. These cells are, in a manner of speaking, committed precursors of neuronal calls. They have been developed via micro-dissection from a a pre-term aborted fetus of A normal human female. These cells were separated from the metencephalon and telencephalon layers of the fetus. They appear morphologically different from each other. While the cells driven from telencephalon grow attached to the surface of the culture vessels and are highly phagocytic the cells developed from metencephalon mostly grow in suspension. Both the cell strains appear to have originated from the same embryo as revealed by the karyotype analysis. Unlike other macrophages they have continued to replicate in CIMM laboratories for the last four years. They look like neuronal cells and behave as one too. The replicating calls have different morphology from the mature cells. Once induced to mature, they do not divide any more but develop an interesting network of cells with axon and dendrites We have included the following pictures that show their morphology.
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